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Hello Bugles and welcome to a truly historic issue 58 of the Bugle, the first ever issue

of the Bugle in the year 2009. John, this has never happened before, an issue of the

Bugle in the calendar year 2009. This has got to be one of the great moments in human history.

Well, I mean that's big claim, Andy. That is your first big claim of 2009.

But yeah, well that is. Also I've broken etiquette there. I haven't introduced myself.

I'm Andy Salzman in London. Bad start to the year. Bad start.

And in New York City. John 2009 is the year of change. That was a change. People don't

know who you are yet. And in New York City is John Oliver. Hello, John. Hello. Hello,

Bugles. Well, God, we've unraveled. This was supposed to be on big year, Andy. You flew it.

Welcome back, Bugles. Welcome back, Andy. And yet, in welcome to 2009, how's it been for you so far, Andy?

Sensational, John. Best year of my life. So far. Yeah. That's good to hear. That's good to hear.

Also, let's take a moment to say happy birthday Earth. Hard to know how many candles to put on your

cake. Opinion seems divided. And it's rude to ask you directly. A science claims that you're 4.5

billion years old. A Christianity rounds that down to a more complimentary 10,000 years old.

Either way, you look terrible. Happy birthday, anyway. How was your Christmas, John?

That is fine. Andy was good. It was fun. It was your classic English family Christmas.

Very pleasant. Yeah. How was yours? Deliver any children? No, and I got that out of the way.

Yeah, I don't know. Before, I have to say, Horace seemed quite ambivalent to his first Christmas.

And when I presented him with his plastic cricket set, he didn't even say thanks.

So, let's kind of take a little while for me to repair my father-son relationship.

I didn't get what I wanted for Christmas, though, John. Right, what was that? World piece.

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